Beta testing libprs500's new GUI

[MissLissa]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That's because the PRS500 doesn't support tags for files on the card. Nothing I can do about that.

Well - that explains it then!

Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by ddavtian

Kovid, I ran web2lrf for newsweek with verbose.
I let it run for an hour, then stopped it.

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Try 0.4.18

[Mitchll]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

library1.db somewhere in your user directories (depends on windows version) just do a search.

Is there is size limitation to the library? Practical or real?

[kovidgoyal]

Not that I'm aware of. The database file is indexed, so there's no reason its size cannot grow indefinitely.

[BobWhite]

I installed libprs500 and it seems to be working fine as far as moving books back and forth. One question, though, since installing libprs500 requires removing the Sony driver. Prior to putting libprs500 on my system, all I had to do to set the clock was connect it to my PC. Now, it still shows daylight saving time. Is there a way to set the clock through libprs500?

I know about the Help About clock setting feature, but that seems to either be off, on, or am/pm settings only. I haven't figured out if there is a combination of buttons needed to set the actual clock time.

I fired up the Connect software today to try and set the clock. Without the driver, it didn't recognize the reader as being connected, so the time didn't change.

In the process of doing this, it noted there was a new version of the Connect software 2.xxxxx. Is there any reason to download this? I couldn't find anything on the forum here regarding the new version.

Thanks,

Bob

[kovidgoyal]

libprs500 does set the clock on your reader, if you start up the software with the reader connected. However, there is a bug in python that prevents it from handling DST changes correctly. I've implemented a possible workaround that will be in the next version. Try it and see.

THe version 2.0 of the connect software mainly adds support for the 505.

[BobWhite]

I'll be looking forward to the next version!

Thanks for the hard work!!

Bob

[BobWhite]

I received the following error when trying to upload a book to the reader:

'BookList' object has no attribute 'root_element'
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 330, in books_uploaded
File "libprs500\gui2\device.pyo", line 115, in add_books_to_metadata
File "libprs500\devices\prs500\driver.pyo", line 891, in add_books_to_metadata
File "libprs500\devices\prs500\books.pyo", line 267, in add_book
File "libprs500\devices\prs500\books.pyo", line 259, in book_by_path
AttributeError: 'BookList' object has no attribute 'root_element'

[kovidgoyal]

oops typo i'm re-releasing 0.4.22 with a fix. Try downloading again in half an hour.

[BobWhite]

They'll get you every time.

That seemed to fix the upload problem. Apparently, while trying to upload a file to the reader last night, it did manage to transfer something because there were several different (unreadable) versions of the book out there. I was able to delete all but one, and that one consistently gives me the following message:

PathError: /Data/media/libprs500/libprs500_80.rtf does not exist on device
Failed to perform job: Remove books from device
Further device related error messages will not be shown while this message is visible.
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "libprs500\gui2\jobs.pyo", line 79, in run
File "libprs500\gui2\device.pyo", line 121, in delete_books
File "libprs500\devices\prs500\driver.pyo", line 168, in run_session
File "libprs500\devices\prs500\driver.pyo", line 897, in delete_books
File "libprs500\devices\prs500\driver.pyo", line 168, in run_session
File "libprs500\devices\prs500\driver.pyo", line 738, in del_file
File "libprs500\devices\prs500\driver.pyo", line 168, in run_session
File "libprs500\devices\prs500\driver.pyo", line 439, in path_properties
PathError: /Data/media/libprs500/libprs500_80.rtf does not exist on device

The .rtf I'm trying to delete did NOT have that name on my laptop. Is it possible somehow to delete that file? The name on the PC was something like "HP5 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.rtf", and is what shows up in libprs500.

Thanks!!

Bob

[kovidgoyal]

Hmm that's strange. Just unplugging the reader and re-connecting it should remove entries that point to files that dont exist.

[BobWhite]

It seems okay now. I hadn't unplugged and replugged it back in.

Thanks!

Bob

[Irrawaddy]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

oops typo i'm re-releasing 0.4.22 with a fix. Try downloading again in half an hour.

Kovidgoyal -

I'm receiving the same error and I'm using 0.4.22 on Ubuntu Gutsy. I'm fairly certain I have all of the pre-reqs installed properly (pyQt, python 2.5.1, etc)

Though then if I close libprs500, and unplug the reader, the books are present on the reader - though some don't have the covers that I added through the GUI (awesome feature btw!)

Error Message:

'BookList' object has no attribute 'root_element'
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/libprs500/gui2/main.py", line 330, in books_uploaded
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/libprs500/gui2/device.py", line 115, in add_books_to_metadata
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/libprs500/devices/prs500/driver.py", line 891, in add_books_to_metadata
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/libprs500/devices/prs500/books.py", line 267, in add_book
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/libprs500/devices/prs500/books.py", line 259, in book_by_path
AttributeError: 'BookList' object has no attribute 'root_element'

[kovidgoyal]

On linux you'll have to wait till 0.4.23 for the fix.

[FixB]

I'm now using libprs500 to manage my ebooks collection (with tags and all ). I just wanted to know where the information is stored, so that I could backup it (you never know what can happen, and it takes a lot of time to input everything). The best would be to be able to export this data in a "classic" format (csv, xml, whatever).